Letters | Congress and the airlines, Murphy cartoons, Bush library

Profiles in courage

I salute Sen. Mitch McConnell, the Senate and the House of Representatives for their courageous, compassionate and speedy votes to ease the burden of delays in air travel on their constituents. I realize it must have been hard work indeed to get this job done, and done in such a speedy manner. The effects of the sequester, which was a self-imposed attempt to force our government to actually govern, obviously went too far when the comfort of frequent air travelers became involved. After all, the elderly, the poor, the unemployed and underemployed, the sick and all of those in like weakened condition can very well fend for themselves with their sequester cuts. But when the comfort and ease of frequent air travelers, such as Senate and House members is compromised, you all by God stood up for all that is right and just! Who says there is a dire shortage of statesmen these days? Whom indeed.

P. HIRAM HOGG

Louisville 40205 -

Sequester snickers

A recent editorial snickered at Congress waking up to budget cuts brought about with President Barack Obama's sequester. I will be glad when this paper wakes up to the injustice, malice, and spitefulness coming out of this White House. To snicker sarcastically at the fraud that is this sequester is to participate in the scheme. A Proverb states, "The wisdom of the prudent is to give thought to their ways, but the folly of fools is deception." Sadly, there is nothing to snicker at here. This paper is fully awake in its folly and deception.

MIKE KLEIER

Louisville 40245 -

Murphy's selective criticism

Marc Murphy's Sunday cartoon implied that Islam and Christianity are both violent. He once again demonstrates his ignorance and bigotry by comparing today's radical Islamist adherents who blow up innocent people in the name of their religion to modern day Christians based on: the IRA - basically engaged in an ethnic/political/geographical conflict; Crusades -something that occurred 1,000 years ago when most participants could not even read the Bible; the KKK - a small fringe group few people consider as "religious" or "Christian"; and other criminals. Mr. Murphy's cartoons should be omitted from print until he backs up his slanderous characterizations with actions.

BEN FOSTER

Fisherville, Ky. 40023 -

Selective criticism, Part 2

I was so disappointed in Mr. Murphy's Sunday cartoon on religious violence. He didn't give Christians all the credit they deserve for the misery they have wrought. He left out the Inquisition and the tens of thousands killed as witches. He made no mention of centuries of prejudice and violence against Jews which made the Holocaust possible. He didn't touch on the massive numbers of native populations throughout the world conquered and killed to bring them the true faith. How much safer, happier and joyous would this world be without religion and its superstitious hogwash?

MARTY HEDGEPETH

Prospect, Ky. 40059 -

Front-page omission

In the small town where I live, the local newspaper, The Gleaner, found room on its front page for an article on the George W. Bush library dedication in Texas on April 25. The Wall Street Journal had a front page picture and a generous article on the event. That there were present at the ceremony all five living presidents: George Bush; George H. W. Bush; Bill Clinton; Jimmy Carter, and Barack Obama made this a momentous occasion.

That this ceremony honored the first president of the 21st century deserved a front-page article. The article covering the event was on page three of The Courier-Journal, and actually highlighted the comments of Obama at the occasion.

I believe the dedication of the presidential library deserved as much front-page coverage as the banning of dogs from the Big Four Bridge because of the problem of droppings or even one-fourth of the front page coverage of the semi-finals of the NCAA basketball tournament.

LIZ SHEA

Henderson, Ky. 42420 -

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Letters | Congress and the airlines, Murphy cartoons, Bush library

I salute Sen. Mitch McConnell, the Senate and the House of Representatives for their courageous, compassionate and speedy votes to ease the burden of delays in air travel on their constituents.